Former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould has released some 14 solo albums since that band’s acrimonious demise in the last 1980s. Sunshine Rock is his twelfth under his own name and Side Two track ‘Irrational Poison’ leads of our New...
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We’re doing an end of year list for each of our seven new music playlists on Spotify and today we present our favourite guitar based Pop/Rock tracks of 2018. It takes in a number of sub-genres including jangle, psych, garage,...
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PLAYLIST UPDATE – December 9: Our final Independent Pop/Rock playlist update of the year contains some super strong guitar based pop and rock across a number of its sub genres and we lead it off with the steady driving rock...
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NOVEMBER 13 UPDATE: We begin our latest Pop/Rock update with the new single ‘Real Tight’ from Perth outfit Methyl Ethel. Joining them is the musical project of London based German artist Silvi Wersing aka Chorusgirl, veteran rocker and Dinosaur Jr mastermind J Mascis, Providence...
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OCTOBER 5 UPDATE: Indie Pop/Rock fans! With almost a month since the last written update, as you’d expect our whole Independent Pop/Rock Spotify playlist has been obliterated and there are 30 brand new tracks released over the last three...
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SEPTEMBER 7 UPDATE: It’s been a while since we checked back with an update of all things guitar based in our pop/rock playlist but there’s always a great deal going on new music wise with additions most days and...
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AUGUST 16 UPDATE: New tracks from two Australian bands to start with. Melbourne punk quartet School Damage ‘Meeting Halfway’ and Fremantle garage rock duo Spacey Jane ‘Cold Feet’. They’re joined by Toronto via Hamilton DIY artist linnea Siggelkow aka Ellis ‘The Drain’, the...
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Melbourne experimental pop/rock outfit Jaala will release their new album Joonya Spirit next month to follow up their well received debut Hard Hold from 2015. On that record enigmatic songwriter, guitarist/vocalist Cosima Jaala Pay employed an approach to songwriting...
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New Material is the stunning new album released today by remarkably consistent Calgary post punk experimentalists Preoccupations. Thus far the band have shared the urgency of synth based ‘Espionage’ as well as ‘Antidote’ , an inspired, genre bending work...
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Very late last year buried deep in December, Melbourne DIY quintet Real Love released their patiently crafted and happily defiant post punk inspired second single ‘You Can’. It may have otherwise gone unnoticed here if we weren’t given given...
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